Earthtimes - Privacy Policy
Privacy update : Our
visitors privacy is important to us here at Earth Times
and it is important that all visitors are aware of the
personal data being collected from them.
Important Update w.ef 19/3/2009:
Earthtimes.org respects your privacy; certain information
is collected from our web server for example your IP
address, the type of computer you are using, the web
browser, the domain server from which you access this
site. The information collected is used by Earth Times
to tailor, improve the site based on user’s interest.
Our efforts are to provide complete information in simple
and easy to understand language.
Cookies:
Earthtimes makes use of the cookies to save visitor
preferences for example the "Show news from section" ,
the Earthtimes themes. Cookies may also be used by our
Advertising Partners for example Google.com. It should
be noted that our Advertising partners may from time
to time collect information such as the visitors IP address,
Browser, Location, Screen resolution etc. The information
collected are used to understand visitor behavior and
thereby enhance the advertising experience, by offering
products that might be of interest.
These third-party advertising companies may use information
(not including your name, address, email address or telephone
number) about your visits to this and other websites
in order to provide advertisements about goods and services
of interest to you. If you would like more information
about this practice and would like to know your options
in relation to·not having this information used
by these companies, Earth Times does not control any
of these third party cookies and is not responsible for
information gathered by them.
Interest-based advertising:
Interest-based advertising by Google uses the DoubleClick
DART cookie on this site. The DoubleClick DART
cookie is used by Google in the ads served on some
publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads
including Earth Times. When users visit the Earth Times
website and either view or click an ad, a cookie may
be dropped on that visitors browser. The data gathered
from these cookies will be used to help Google and
Earth Times to serve and manage the ads on their site
and across the web to better effect. As mentioned previously,
Google, one of the advertising partners used on Earth
Times is a third-party vendor and uses cookies to serve
ads on this site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables
it to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to
Earth Times and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting
the Google
ad and Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Further information and resources can also be found
by visiting the Network
Advertising Initiative, or NAI.
Earth Times Member Section:
Earthtimes.org provides Email alert facility free of
charge to registered users. We collect User Name and
the Email id. The information collected and stored is
used only by the earthtimes.org,
no information is sold or shared with any other party.
User Comments/ Email this Article:
When visitors either send an article via email and/or
leaves a comment, the email id is collected, this information
is not displayed anywhere on the web site earthtimes.org,
and neither shared with any other party.
We reserve the right to change
or update this policy at any time by placing a prominent
notice on our site. Such changes shall be effective
immediately upon posting to this site.